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I think I have some that are similar that are pulls from an Antec 1200 case.

That statement must be much more insulting over there because in the US it is not. I don't thing Johnm meant any offense by the statement.

Power PC and Cooling makes nice stuff. Based on reviews I would avoid the Thremaltake. I suggest just buying a Corsair or the like from newegg.com and being done with it.

Based on specs, yes it is a nice PSU. Find some reviews and find out what they say.

Keep using green drives and that will be fine.

No, it seems to be running just fine.

Unless you are good at soldering and trust your skills, you are playing with fire. I would rather buy a good PSU and be done with it.

Not really

Are these all green drives? If those rails are truly split at 20Amps each then you are going to have problems when you add 12 drives, even green ones. My suggestion is to get a new single rail PSU like the corsair, seasonic, etc listed. You have no way to balance the drives on the rails, just can't happen.

It will attempt to cache them, there is NO guarantee. If on your computer it has to generate a thumbnail, preview, etc then the disk will spin up, and there is nothing that can really be done about that.

Those results are basically identical to the ones you posted above. My same suggestion stands for the above drive.

It is safe, though I would probably still run another preclear.

Three after the PRE-READ was expected. Reading would never re-allocate sectors. Zero re-allocations after writing indicates all the un-readable sectors were processes. Zero re-allocated after the POST-READ indicates all three sectors were able to be written in their original locations, and did not need to be re-allocated. The drive is working pretty decently. (You can still keep an eye on it, but it was able to handle the 3 sectors initially marked as un-readable.) Joe L. You are correct, that's what I get for skimming over the report. Been looking at so many of those this weekend with nothing reported that I did the same when I looked at the one posted above.

I would run another cycle on the drive. The 3 pending before start and then 3 pending after completion is a little odd. I would check all power and data cables before starting the next preclear.

looks fine. It has a single 12V rail and is high efficiency.

Is the drive hanging off a SASLP card? or possibly another SATA card? Those cards don't like the arguments passed with smartctl and therefore the issue you are seeing.

I wish I could grab a couple... 3-4... of these in the US for that price. I have a friend that would love an unRAID server, but it has to be small. I can build one that is small, but not nearly as cheaply as this one was put together for.

45 and 50 is more in the "don't want to touch range" I have a couple drives that hit about 43C when doing a parity check. The parity check happens once a month so I am not to concerned about that temp for an 8ish hour period of time.

Take a look at Rajahal's prototype thread in the UCD forum and more specifically this post. There is a 9 drive budget box build in there that sounds like it could fit the bill for you nicely.

That was some very good detectives work to figure out what was going on. Please let Tom know about your findings, and direct him to your post above. Updating hdparm for the next version release should not be overly difficult, and if is solves some issues with the SATAIII drives attached to SATAIII ports then it is something that needs to be changed/included. There is no issue... usually. Installing a newer hdparm over the top of any existing one should not cause any stability, etc problems.

do a search for unRAID_addon_control.sh There is some setup and reading that you will have to do but it does work.

Not that I know of. There are cases that do not have the tabs, but I don't know of any 5x3 cages that do not require the tabs to be bent down.

It hangs because unmenu is waiting for cache_dirs to return some output... which it will not because of the way it runs in the background. The post below your, or above mine as the case were, will work to start cache_dirs.

I read most of this subject but I probably missed useful things, sorry. This is very hard for newbies to have a clear view about all that happens in preclear, maybe if someone nice enough would do some kind of FAQ/WIKI/recap post about it, it would avoid seemingly stupid and redundant questions like mine (if anything clear and reachable had been written about it, I would undoubtly had read it). Something like : ... G-Sense_Error_Rate : Not to be taken care of Power-Off_Retract_Count : Check PSU if to many errors ... and so on I don't know anything about it but I guess it would not take hours to do and it would be an interesting knowledge database for very new users like me. The thing a bout the outdated preclear script is much more annoying to me cause I downloaded it not a week ago from what seemed to me the official preclear thread (this one : http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2817.0). If my post came across harsh or anything of the sort I apologize. I did not mean it that way. The FAQ, wiki thing is a good idea but it takes time to put together and I know I do not have the time to do it right now. The newest version of preclear has a nice "report" that is printed at the end of the clear process that points out anything that might be of concern.

Your drives are fine, and if you search back through this thread you would find and lot of posts like yours. It appears you are using an older version of the preclear script also, I suggest updating it.